Mama Africa - Miriam Makeba

Mama Africa - Miriam Makeba (2011)

Mika Kaurismäki’s documentary about world-famous South African singer Miriam Makeba, who spent half a century travelling the world spreading her political message to fight racism, poverty and promote justice and peace, is a tribute to a woman who embodied the hopes and the voice of Africa as no other. More

Soul Power

Soul Power (2008)

Jeffrey Levy-Hinte has brought the disparate and unedited film of Zaire '74 together into one coherent form for the first time. The rainchild of South African musician Hugh Masekela and American record producer Stewart Levine, Zaire '74 was a three-day music festival that took place in Kinshasa in 1974. More

Soul Power (DVD)
DVD

Soul Power

CHF 23.00 / EUR 19.00

Zulu Love Letter & Fools (DVD)
DVD

Zulu Love Letter & Fools

CHF 44.00 / EUR 33.50

Amandla!

Amandla! (2002)

«Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony» shows how music was used in the fight for freedom. In the South African liberation struggle against apartheid, it was not least the songs that united those who were being oppressed and gave those fighting a way to express their plight. The music also consoled the incarcerated people and created a form of communication inside the prisons. More

Amandla! (DVD)
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Amandla!

CHF 23.00 / EUR 19.00

Fools

Fools (1997)

The long-awaited, much-anticipated first feature film by a black South African director. Adapted from Njabulo S. Ndebele's novella of the same name but set a decade later during the final years of the apartheid regime, FOOLS tells the story of a disgraced middle-aged schoolteacher who is confronted by an 18-year-old activist whose sister he raped. More

Zulu Love Letter & Fools (DVD)
DVD

Zulu Love Letter & Fools

CHF 44.00 / EUR 33.50